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every quarter

every quarter

7 1.3
Happens every three months
  • idiom
translation icon : cada trimestre
  • Samsung and other ordinary OEMs experience price erosion every quarter.
  • dividend every quarter
  • losing value every quarter
  • once every quarter

I started fasting every quarter for three to five days.

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Examples

  • The finance team evaluates the budget every quarter to ensure proper allocation of resources.

  • Employees receive performance reviews every quarter to assess their progress.

  • Meanwhile, the public sector is under attack, and every quarter brings worse results than the last.

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  • It's time to clean it out again, something I do about every quarter.

    Blog text (6)
  • Imagine knowing that a stock would almost always rise at a certain date every quarter!

    Blog text (34)
  • So in my case, there are fifteen national business organizations that I meet with every quarter, and I tell them what we are doing.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Each and every quarter must be better than the last one, or the shareholders are unhappy.

    Blog text (1)
  • Governments acknowledge inflation and publish data on it every quarter.

    Blog text (23)
  • Repayment rates for farm loans have declined every quarter since the second quarter of 2013, suggesting heightened stress in agricultural lending.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Every quarter, the company holds a meeting to discuss its growth and forecast for the upcoming months.

Synonyms

quarterly
vsevery quarter
56 3.0

Happens every three months

has identical meaning but uses a different wording
trimonthly
vsevery quarter
4.7

Happening every three months

means specifically once during each three month period

How Often

daily
1.0
every week
263 1.0
monthly
246 1.0
every quarter
7 1.3
biannually
1 3.7
yearly
75 1.0

Surface Forms

every quarter positive

Morphology

every + quarter

The meaning 'at intervals of three months' is directly derivable from combining 'every' (each) with 'quarter' (a fourth part or a three-month time segment), so a learner who knows both words can infer the time interval. This quantifier + temporal noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English composition, making it transparent to B1 learners.

Etymology

Every quarter comes from dividing the year into four equal parts, like cutting a cake so each 'quarter' is three months long. So saying every quarter means 'once every three months'.